My Comp's A Beast

Whats up! This week was awesome! I had a great exchange with elder olson and Monday and Tuesday! It was good to run it back with him. 

We've been facing a bit of opposition towards the end of the week. Petr passed his interview and everything and was looking super good for his baptism. On sunday morning he texted us and said that he broke his knee and was headed to the hospital and we haven't heard from him since. It was pretty sad, so that will delay his baptism for a little while. He's doing great spiritually tho! One of our new members also texted us on Friday evening and said that he was headed to the hospital and that was all the info we got, so we haven't heard from him either. 

The good stuff tho is that Friday was one of the greatest days ever! We got to spend the entire day with our new mission leaders the Evertons! They are incredible! They are some of the most amazing people I have ever met, and I learned soo much from them just in a day. While they were visiting us, we had 3 incredible lessons throughout the day and the spirit was soo present. One of our friends was telling us a lot about some struggles in his life, and we were able to show him the power of the priesthood and give him a blessing. 

While we were on an exchange, my comp elder Ballstaedt talked to a kid that dropped us a couple of weeks ago. His name is Simon and he is one of the most prepared kids I have ever met. He found God about 6 months ago and changed his entire life around the past couple of months. As my comp talked with him, they set up another lesson and we had the greatest lesson ever with him on Friday. At the end of the lesson President Everton walked into the room and sat down and immediately started baring testimony. It was exactly what we had just been teaching and promising Simon and it was soo cool. 

"Coincidence is not an appropriate word to describe the workings of an omniscient God. He does not do things by ‘coincidence’ but … by ‘divine design.’” Our lives are like a chessboard, and the Lord moves us from one place to another—if we are responsive to spiritual promptings. Looking back, we can see His hand in our lives." I loved this quote from elder rasband in his talk divine design. God guides us in our lives when we pay attention and act on the promptings of the Spirit. The part that I thought was cool, is that we need to review and reflect. That is how we can see the hand of the lord in our lives. Throughout my mission, as i have taken 5-10 minutes to ponder and journal at the end of each day, I have noticed how God works through me to help others come closer to him. While pondering I've also received promptings from the spirit of what i can change and improve. The spirit truly does work through us. 

I love you all and have another great week! Miss you all!



Photos: 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

České Krumlov

Image
Dang this was such a normal week, but I'll try to make this interesting. Monday we had a district p day which was awesome. I used to have those every week in Prague, I definitely miss those days haha. But we went to one of the prettiest places in the country, it was literally a fairy tale land. But it was an awesome day and gave us some energy for the long week we had. We ended that day with some street contacting, picking up elder Rowes wallet from the train station cause he lost it, and then killing around 15 spiders that have been lurking in our church building for probably the past 5 years.  Tuesday was a completely normal day, we visited an inactive member and she said she's definitely not going to come back to church. Kinda unfortunate.  Wednesday was the first day of my mission that I have ever gone door to door contacting. It was actually a lot of fun but dang nobody wanted to talk with us. We might try it again soon and see if people's hearts change. This was a hol...
Read more

Křest Jany v ČBUDSKY

Image
This is actually going to be such a short email cause I don't feel really good, but this week was so awesome. Pretty much the first half of the week was pretty great, normal missionary work. We were able to teach a couple lessons and talk with lots of people. Good stuff. Thursday we went to the other elders area and I ran an exchange with my old comp from Prague elder Lawrence. That was a good time and good to be back together. The exchange was pretty great. That next day I had my last VISA appointment in Prague and now I have my visa which is good. Elder Hinckley still has 2 more so we will be going back again very soon. Pretty bad timing but its alr.  The best part of the week was that i was able to return to CBUD for a baptism of one of our friends that I was able to teach before i left. She is so amazing, already has the strongest testimony! She has some family members in the church so she has been reading the Book of mormon a little bit over the past couple years. One day she ...
Read more

Week 88 Or Something As A Missionary

Image
Whats up everybody! This week was really awesome! It started off with a lot of late nights preparing for ZC and some other things, but it was a lot of fun.  It's been a crazy past couple of weeks. As a mission, we always have a monthly focus. Througout our MLC about a month ago, we counciled about things and decided that the best monthly focus for our mission would be, "Confidence and Christ". We were planning a lot of things, even as we were preparing for a zone conference, we were completely focusing on how to grow in our confidence in Christ. Then as we watched General Conference, President Nelsons talk was titled, "Confidence in the Presence of God". It was such an incredible feeling, knowing that our mission is focusing exactly on what the Prophet feels need to share with us.  Zone Conference went great, all the trainings and thoughts were all focused on growing our confidence through charity and Virtue and how to apply it directly into missionary work. Sup...
Read more